Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews.

• pirat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve found it useful enough not too long ago, mostly for comparing Amazon’s pricing differences for identical products between various EU countries.

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• Psythik@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yes CamelCamelCamel is still useful. I check it every time before a major purchase.

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• ToffeeIsForClosers@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Keepa is better, and depending on whether you’re conspiratorial, not compromised as 3Camels was accused of some years ago.

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  • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Compromised?

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    • ToffeeIsForClosers@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      3Camels was, maybe still is, fully dependent on the Amazon affiliate program. A program that was reduced at one point, killed off 3Camels competitor, but not 3Camels. Then Amazon asked them to stop tracking during Covid for a time which they did.

      This is around the time that I heard about Keepa which has a different model, not solely Amazon but other stores too, and not paid via affiliates program.

      Also it’s just faster. 3Cs was getting super slow to notify. You’d get an email, click and surprise, that sale was over yesterday.

      I probably heard about the controversy on Reddit at the time but there’s a chance I found this site here which covers some of my recollections.

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      • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Thanks!

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• JTskulk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Never heard of this. Sounds useful, except I’m really only buying something from them because I need it quickly most of the time. I don’t have the convenience of waiting for price drops like I do with Steam games haha. Thanks for sharing!

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